Can NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti run gemma-3-27b-it?
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Tight No quantization of gemma-3-27b-it clearly fits on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti with a context of 8,192 tokens. The highest borderline one is Q2_K, which needs 14.4 GiB available for “Fits”; that is within the estimate error range.
Run profile: llama.cpp, CUDA back end (NVIDIA discrete GPU), all layers on the GPU, Flash Attention on, micro-batch (-ub) 512, F16 KV cache, context (-c) as shown; “Fits” is judged with llama-server’s default 4 parallel sequences (-np auto, unified KV cache) and “Doesn’t fit” with 1 sequence; idle GPU with no other programs using its memory.
Memory counted as available for “Fits” (C_low): 8.88 GiB per card = 12 GiB nominal − 1,054 MiB (the largest gap between nominal and reported total measured on consumer and workstation GPUs in this profile, used because no public log reports this GPU’s own total) − 2,112 MiB (the largest start-up and runtime use seen in this profile’s public logs), rounded down to a multiple of 64 MiB.
These results assume the card’s default configuration. Settings that reduce usable memory (for example ECC, where the card supports it) are not covered.
Memory used for “Doesn’t fit” (C_high): the full 12 GiB per card. Run profiles and their measurements
Memory needed by quantization and context
| Quantization | 4,096 | 8,192 | 32,768 | 131,072 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 56.5 GiB Doesn't fit | 57.1 GiB Doesn't fit | 59.1 GiB Doesn't fit | 67.2 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q8_0 | 31.7 GiB Doesn't fit | 32.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 34.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 42.4 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q6_K | 25.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 25.9 GiB Doesn't fit | 27.9 GiB Doesn't fit | 36.0 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q5_K_M | 22.5 GiB Doesn't fit | 23.0 GiB Doesn't fit | 25.0 GiB Doesn't fit | 33.1 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q4_K_M | 19.8 GiB Doesn't fit | 20.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 22.4 GiB Doesn't fit | 30.5 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q4_0 | 18.9 GiB Doesn't fit | 19.4 GiB Doesn't fit | 21.5 GiB Doesn't fit | 29.6 GiB Doesn't fit |
| IQ4_XS | 18.1 GiB Doesn't fit | 18.6 GiB Doesn't fit | 20.6 GiB Doesn't fit | 28.7 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q3_K_M | 16.7 GiB Doesn't fit | 17.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 19.3 GiB Doesn't fit | 27.4 GiB Doesn't fit |
| Q2_K | 13.9 GiB Tight | 14.4 GiB Tight | 16.4 GiB Doesn't fit | 24.5 GiB Doesn't fit |
Alternatives
Other 12 GB GPUs where gemma-3-27b-it fits
No other GPU with the same memory size fits this model.
Largest model of the same family that fits on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Sources
- Model page, with every quantization and its files: gemma-3-27b-it
- GPU page, with each specification and its sources: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
- Model files on Hugging Face (pinned revisions): google/gemma-3-27b-it@005ad34, unsloth/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF@7cd0121
- Memory size of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti from: Wikipedia: GeForce RTX 40 series (CC BY-SA 4.0), GetDeploying GPU Models (CC BY 4.0)
- Methodology